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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Top Producer brings you exclusive audio analysis of USDA’s November Cattle on Feed report. Listen to University of Missouri livestock economist Ron Plain his analysis of the October cattle numbers.
Agriculture in the Czech Republic has not had an easy road. Throughout history heavy governmental involvement made the country’s agriculture industry shrink, expand and finally somewhat flourish.
Even with VeraSun Energy Corporation filing for bankruptcy earlier this week, there has been little impact on basis, according to research by Cash Grain Bids.
Making every seed count just got easier. Two companies are teaming up to bring more precision to your planter.
Farmers have many reasons to be thankful, regardless of the current industry challenges. For this reason, AgDay showcases all of the bountiful gifts agriculture provides during its annual Harvest of Thanks episode.
Is your corn’s moisture still testing high? Will your yields surpass your grain-drying capacity? What grain should you store, and what should you sell? This growing season has been anything but normal, and is raising uncommon questions at harvest time. Find out how you can solve your storage problems and prepare for next year.
Increasing demand for livestock products, solving global trade problems and reforming immigration are just a few of the challenges facing the U.S. livestock industry.
Over the next 30 years, agriculture will be challenged to provide food, fiber and energy to a world population projected to increase by 9 billion people. This is no small challenge, and one that will require dramatic changes in agricultural policy and private industry, says Neilson Conklin, Farm Foundation president.
With its Top Producer of the Year awards program, the magazine recognizes business excellence among the nation’'s agricultural producers.
Browner, Chu, and Jackson to direct environmental, energy policy
Here areseveral ways to protect your crop from wet feet—often the weakest link in your yield chain
The seemingly endless argument between the American Soybean Association (ASA) and the United Soybean Board (USB) has escalated this morning. ASA has formally asked the Secretary of Agriculture to order the USDA Inspector General to open an investigation into “serious allegations of abuse, wasteful spending, and mismanagement” by USB.
Group seeks review of how funds are being used
You can create a comprehensive business plan with six simple stages, thanks to a software program developed by Purdue University. INVenture, free business-planning software, can help your agricultural business succeed by laying out the required steps.
Yes, there’s such thing as a good breakdown. Studies hint that shredding stalks may be the ticket to higher yields in continuous corn.
Poop. The latest ethanol aids are cropping up in some very surprising and smelly places.
Got the urge to strip and go native? Prairie grass may be just the ticket to reducing erosion.
If you’re new to towing you may fully understand the EZ Connector, a wonderful tool. If you are a trailer expert and spent time with that little screw driver redoing your trailer plugs after they pulled apart or using your knife to scrape corrosion off the trailer plug blades and off course using the straight edge screw driver to bend the blades so they will connect to the male plug, you’ll relate to a better way.
Payload and trailer tongue weight come from the same capacity limit. Which makes hard sided heavy truck campers difficult to use with trailers.
If the right side mirrors says “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” throw them away. When you’re backing up a trailer, you need to see the same distance view in booth your mirrors. Having good big towing mirrors with spotter mirrors makes towing, turning and backing safer.
Input costs, especially for fertilizer, have been all over the board this past year and don’t look like they’ll settle down anytime soon. Properly managing your fertilizer applications, amounts and options can definitely save you heartache and cash during next year’s growing season. Lloyd Murdock, extension soil specialist at the University of Kentucky, provides some advice on how not to make fertilizer mistakes.
In this machinery maker’s view, 2009 will bring a return to 2007 levels.
Obama’s top economic planners meet on coming stimulus package
Alan Brugler of Brugler Marketing and Management says there were some supportive indicators in yesterday’s revised USDA report, but he is watching today’s interest rate announcement from the Fed more closely.